February 22, 2000 - Pan 0.7.6 Released
Note: the killfile format has changed since 0.7.5. You must delete ~/.pan/data/killfile.db if upgrading from an earlier version of Pan. All the other data files are fine.

New Features
• Better thread tracking/killing in killfile utility
• New "Find Backwards" button in Find dialog
• New "Space Reading": hitting the space key will page down in the current article; at the end of the article, the next article is loaded.
• Added "Save Attachment As..." feature
• New ability to show all article headers
• New color for watched article threads.
• New feature: download entire article thread.
• New feature: User can now plug in an external mailer to use when replying by mail

Updated
• Updated Danish, French, German, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, and Spanish translations.
• Improved Preferences Dialog layout.

Bug Fixes
• Pan-freezes-on-startup bug fixed.
• Memory leaks fixed.
• Double-click no longer expands the article tree; it now just reads the articles like it did up through 0.7.3. (Click on the +/- box to expand the tree.)
• Cached articles can now be read while offline, as you would expect.
• Mark article/all read/unread works properly.
• Fixed infinite loop when hitting "next" in article Find dialog if all the articles had been filtered out.
• We now collapse double periods at the start of a line as per RFC977 section 2.4.1. This will stop a "corrupt decode" bug.

February 10, 2000 - Pan 0.7.5 Released
The file formats have changed since Pan 0.7.3. You will need to remove your ".pan" directory if upgrading from 0.7.3 or older.
This is a bugfix release.

New Features
• Added rot13 support.
• Better author and subject message sorting.

Updated
• Updated French, Italian, Korean, and Norwegian translations.

Bug Fixes
• The statusbar didn't update when the grouplists were loading in 0.7.4.
• mark-all-read-crash bug fixed.
• crash-while-loading-grouplist bug fixed.
• sincle-click article reading works again.
• fixes to the article filter
• I18N Fixes.
• A few others.

February 8, 2000 - Pan 0.7.4 Released

New Features
• Added ability to view and sort articles by the number of unread children in a thread.
• New article filtering based on read/unread state, binary/text, etc.
• Single-part images now are flagged as binaries
• "Get All Articles" is now faster
• Find Articles dialog now begins its search at the current article, rather than at the top of the article list.
• Better (self-evaluated) Good Newskeeping Seal of Approval conformance (ten checklist items!)
• Friendlier new user startup
• Added French, Norwegian translations
• Better support for 64-bit machines

Updated
• Updated German, Italian, Spanish translations

Bug Fixes
• Many, many memory leaks & corruption bugs fixed. (Thanks, Purify)
• Sort-twice-and-crash bug fixed.
• Taskbar-at-the-bottom-resizes bug fixed.
• We now dispose of dead sockets properly.
• Get All/Get New doesn't erase old articles' read/unread state anymore
• Bug fixes to "Reply" feature
• Expire-header bugfix
• Fewer (any?) "Expected X messages; only found Y messages" messages.
• Handle SIGPIPE errors gracefully.

January 27, 2000 - Pan 0.7.3 "Snow Day"
This is an interim release of all the fixes & features written by the Pan development team while snowed in this week.

New Features
• Faster loading of binaries newsgroups
• "Delete" key mapped to delete articles.
• Threaded articles can now be sorted by author, date, or subject
• Better (self-evaluated) Good Newskeeping Seal of Approval rating
• Added support in the killfile to filter out articles with less than N lines. For the alt.binaries fans.
• New preferences option: show only the first part of completed multipart binary posts

Bug Fixes
• Memory leaks fixed.
• Article sorting from the article list works again.
• Threaded articles default to sort by date again.
• Unsubscribe Group bug fixed.
• Bug where new posts would wrongly be posted as followups fixed.
• Solaris compile problems.
• i18n improvements

New Features
• Article filtering added.
• New article toolbar for easy filtering/sorting of articles.
• Improved killfile support.
• New Swedish translation.
• Updated Korean, Danish, and Polish translations.

Bug Fixes
• More gui lockup fixes. Don't these things ever go away?
• Some servers wouldn't accept the date format given by Pan when posting. Pan now uses a more universal date string.
• The "Find" dialog now works correctly.
• The default directories preferences weren't being set/used/saved correctly.
• Pan would crash if all the articles in a group were filtered out by the killfile.
• Pan would go into an infinite loop when hitting next/previous unread article if the articles were already all read. My, but these bugfix sections are depressing to write.

Bug Fixes
• "Get all" groups / "get new" groups was crashing.
• More gui lockup fixes. Don't these things ever go away?
• The reply/followup menu options in the articlelist popup didn't work properly.
• Layout mode wasn't loading the articlelist when user selected a group from the keyboard.
• Some dialogs (like the "no groups for this server; load now?") were getting lost behind the main window. Now they are always in front of the main window.
• Decode fixes.
• Open multiple attachments fixed.
• Printing articles from the main window (instead of a popup article
• Multiple fixes to the prefs code.
• Other stuff we forgot to document.

New Features
• Added ability to download/decode more than one item at a time. A thread for non-decode activity is reserved set aside so that messages can be read even when the decode queue is full.
• Article cache management
• Keyboard navigation for groups, articles, unread articles
• Added ability to email a reply to posts
• "Wildmat"-style pattern matching in grouplist & find dialog. This is the style used by the find command and most shells. In short, "comp.lang*" now works.
• Messages can now be saved as text files.
• Early printing support added. (Waiting for gnome-print to finalize; this is an interim fix)
• Followup-to, reply-to, and "followup-to: poster" headers supported
• Added ability to change servers during a download.
• Added new --debug command-line options
• Group descriptions are now displayed in the grouplist.
• Multibyte fonts now supported
• Article list loading sped up, again.
• Toolbar now shows number of actions (get new groups, get new headers, decode multipart, etc) queued and waiting for a server connection.
• Better (self-evaluated) "good newskeeping seal of approval" rating
• Better conformance to "son-of-rfc-1036" document

Bug Fixes
• y2k posting date bug
• many decode bugs
• freezeup when loading articles, changing groups, decoding/reading messages. multithreaded Gtk articles are tricky to debug; thanks for all the bug reporters.
• decoded files were saved in the wrong directory when the user changed groups during the decode
• multipart messages were being flagged as complete even if the last part was missing.
• Bug fix: Pan would go into an infinite loop if corrupt data was downloaded from the nntp server.
• and others, including our old favorites: memory leaks plugged and memory corruption fixed.

December 14, 1999 - Pan 0.6.7 released

• Fixed the bug with posting new messages, thanks to Jason Costomiris for reporting this bug.
• Fixed "mark unread" bug. Thanks to David Bicking and Noah Robin for reporting this bug.
• Fixed a bug with decoded attachments (with unknown filenames) overwriting the same file, thanks to Rich Unger for the patch.
• Fixed a bug with overwhelming X traffic during download/decode articles. Thanks to Frank de Lange for reporting this bug.
• Many, many memory leaks plugged. Thanks to Purify for reporting this bug.
• Slightly faster startup.
• Updated Korean translation, thanks to Kang JeongHee.

December 13, 1999 - Pan 0.6.6 released

• New feature: "Open Article in New Window" (including ability to save full text of a message to a file.)
• New feature: "Get New Groups".
• New feature: Killfile support (filter out spam messages or authors).
• New feature: User-configurable article headers.
• Reply-To and Followup-To now supported.
• Many improvements to message Posting and Replying.
• Made the druid for first-time users even simpler.
• Article expiration improved, should only be expiring articles that no longer exist on the server now.
• Article Tree speedups; the article sort lockup bug has been fixed.
• Added support for regular expressions in group/article lists.
• Updated Italian translation.
• Updated Polish translation.
• German Translation added, thanks to Matthew D. Allen.
• Fixed bug in new fonts being applied to display even when the user hasn't specifically set or changed the font in the Preferences.
• Fixed a bug with line counts being sorted incorrectly, thanks to Kevin Brammer for reporting this bug.
• Fixed bugs with "Group Empty".
• Speed tweaks, bug fixes, and many code cleanups.

December 1, 1999 - Pan 0.6.5 released

• Fixed bugs that prevented replying to messages (and improved mem usage and performance by removing old variables in the process).
• Fixed a serious bug with keyboard bindings and switching layouts. Thanks to J.F. Shoberg for reporting this bug.
• Fixed bugs with deleting/marking read/marking unread articles corrupting total/unread counts.
• Fixed memory leaks/corruption bugs in posting module.
• Fixed possible problems with TCP connection code, thanks to Jeff Schornick for the suggestion.
• Paned layout preserves pane positions (widths), thanks to Chris Jones for the patch.
• Cosmetic improvements to the article and grouplist list.
• Fixed a bug causing crashes when trying to read messages with zero lines, thanks to Michael Dungan for reporting this bug.

November 29, 1999 - Pan 0.6.4 released

• Replaced gdbm use with Berkeley DB for speed reasons. What was a 140-second load now takes 4 seconds!
• Marking articles as read, unread now works correctly.
• Deleting articles now works correctly.
• Added Italian translation, thanks to Davide Manzoni.
• Updated Spanish translation.
• Updated Polish translation.
• Updated Korean translation.
• Should now build and run on FreeBSD out of the box.
• Find dialog now has "find unread only" switch and remembers users' preferences each time it's popped up.
• Threading articles by message-id works again. (Broken in 0.6.3)
• Added signature file support (set it in the User Preferences).
• Speed improvements in group list and message text displays.
• Mem leaks plugged, bugs fixed, and other speedups.

• Article threading rewritten from scratch, it's now very very fast.
• Session management and --geometry string parsing added, thanks to Gregory McLean.
• Updated Korean translation.
• Polish translation added, thanks to Karol Chatkowski.
• Spanish translation added, thanks to Antonio de la Torre.
• Serbian translation added, thanks to Zoltan Csala.
• Improved the Find dialog to allow searching for authors and toggling case sensitivity.
• Pan now builds on Solaris out of the box.
• Fonts used in the group listing, article listing, and in the message bodies can be customized in the Preferences now.
• Colors used in the article listing can be customized in the Preferences.
• Per-group configuration abilities added: now you can have download files from each group go to a configurable directory.
• Complete multipart messages get their line counts summed up.
• Bug fixes and mem leak fixes.

• pan.desktop donated by Datazone, now we sneak our way into your GNOME main menu (in the Internet submenu)
• Danish partial translation contributed by Birger Langkjer.. Thanks (our apologies for not having all the strings marked or all files included as of 0.6.0 to make it a 'full' translation.)
• i18n improvements, hopefully marking all strings and including all necessary files.
• serious bug in 'online/offline prompt' operation in paned mode fixed.
• improved prefs to help prevent authorization problems.
• the Log Viewer is (mostly) finished! Check it out and give us some feedback.
• progressbar errors/miscalculations for 'get all' and 'get new' should all be fixed.
• statusbar improved to show counting of header totals while downloading.